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DCP-LETT-10067

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 18
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10067F

From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B23
Summary:

First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10070F

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1875]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 17 July 1875, p. 78
Summary:

Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10072

From:
Charlotte Papé
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 27
Summary:

Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10073

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 200
Summary:

Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.

Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10076F

From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B22; DAR 94: 1a (cover)
Summary:

Errata slip forInsectivorous plants

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10077

From:
William Kitchen Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 20
Summary:

Sorry he was out when CD called.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10078

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 15
Summary:

Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10081

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896: 33
Summary:

Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10082

From:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C8r
Summary:

CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Akademie.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10085

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B121–2
Summary:

Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10086

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 16
Summary:

Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.

Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10089

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 95, 96
Summary:

Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10090

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 42
Summary:

Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10094

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 213
Summary:

No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10095

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 33–4
Summary:

His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10099

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 188
Summary:

Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10101

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 217
Summary:

Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10102

From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 36
Summary:

Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.

Asks permission to translate Expression.

The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10103

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1d
Summary:

JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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